“pallavi aiyar”

India and China share a 3500-km border and have interacted with each other for over 2000 years. It is remarkable then that their people know so little of each other: what they think, how they live, their language, customs and philosophy.Or even their cuisine. Pallavi Aiyar was very much the av... More

China is at an historical point where tradition and modernity, communism and capitalism, chaos and control, freedom and dissent, amongst other dualities rub up against each other on a daily basis. In order to remain in power through this period of fundamental and far-reaching transformations, the Ch... More

My life was like a jigsaw puzzle with a vital piece missing from it and something had inspired me to think that I could find that missing piece again. Based on this hope, I made the decision to go on this journey. A Nameless Place is the story of a British Indian girl, Laxmi Gupta, who is desperatel... More

Mani Shankar Aiyar has elevated the art of lampooning (on the basis of hard-core facts and distilled data) to extraordinarlily dizzy heights, which very few writers can aspire to conquer. This volume, Knickerwallahs, Silly-Billies & Other Curious Creatures, presents a pithy and thought-provoking... More

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT - AND ADVOCACY PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND ADVOCACY being a series of lectures delivered to apprentices-at-law BY K. V. KRISHNASWAMI AIYAR Advocate, High Court, Madras WITH FOREWORDS BY SIR MAURICE GWYER Formerly Chief Justice of India AND SIR LIONEL LEACH Chief Justice, High Court... More

“Through (or in the light of) the Itihasas and Puranas, the Vedas have to be explained.” It is to this book that can be attributed the distinction of singularly and most compellingly proving the scientific basis of the Puranas, probably the most condemned of the Smûâis, as they seem to contai... More

This work of selected poems seeks to explore and understand the emotions of its author, Pallavi Kumbla, a college student. These poems document intense moments in her newly independent life and seek to provide an understanding of her route to finding out who she really is.... More

In Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist, Mani Shankar Aiyar, crusader for a secular credo, calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of our nationhood. In doing so, he revisits every dimension of our secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by comm... More